The forced cancellation of the Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago on March 11 was a beautiful display of resilience and resistance led by the most oppressed. These are brave and conscious youth, Black, Latino/a and white, who should be congratulated and saluted for their militant actions. Instead, Trump, other right-wing politicians and some mainstream media called the anti-racist protesters “outside agitators” and “professional disruptors.”...

March 2016 will mark 13
YEARS that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui has been a political
prisoner. Her life is on the line. She has not had a
prison visit with any family member or her in over a
year. Aafia is a victim of the U.S. torture program in
Afghanistan and continuing prison abuse in Federal
prison in Ft. Worth Texas....

Political pundits, the media, politicians and people in general continue to be shocked that billionaire Donald Trump is still in the running for president.

Even members of the Republican Party say they are stunned that Trump is winning in poll after poll and primary after primary. Republican Lindsey Graham said, “My party has gone batshit crazy.” (AP, Feb. 26)...

A U.S. court of appeals today has vacated the immigration fraud conviction of Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh. Odeh was convicted in 2014 for failing to disclose a 1969 arrest and conviction in an Israeli military court on her U.S. immigration and naturalization documents. Odeh had been subjected to torture, including rape, by Israeli interrogators and forced to sign a false confession...

It would be rash to read too much into the caucuses held Feb. 1 in Iowa, so far as predicting the outcome of the next U.S. presidential election. Iowa is not typical of the country. Had those participating in the caucuses moved to the right, that might be dismissed as not representative of the great masses of people concentrated in large cities. The U.S. as a whole is much more multinational, much more people of color than Iowa....

More than 200 people came out here on Jan. 19 to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community in the face of a right-wing, racist attack on their application to build an Islamic community center on the site of an old warehouse....

A lingering product of the decades-long U.S. war against the Cuban Revolution is visible today in Costa Rica, where nearly 8,000 Cuban migrants wait for permission to cross Central American borders on their trek to the U.S....

The bill in question is an attack on the growing movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), and if ratified, sets a dangerous precedent that could impact other collective efforts for social justice....

Women prisoners in the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, Calif., are on hunger strike in solidarity with detained immigrants. In the first such unified prisoner action in the U.S., women in criminal custody are fasting in solidarity with women in immigration custody. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rents space in the Yuba County Jail to incarcerate undocumented immigrants. ...

The anti-Trump demonstration in New York City planned for Dec. 20 could not come at a more crucial time, not only for the movement and the workers in the U.S. but also globally. Initiated by the International Action Center, this demonstration is being embraced and endorsed by a growing number of progressive, anti-racist and anti-imperialist groups, including Muslims....

In the first round of regional elections Dec. 6, the National Front (FN) led in six of France’s 12 regions. While the FN is often called “far right,” its current leader, Marine Le Pen, rebranded it from an openly fascist party founded by her father, Jean Marie Le Pen, a torturer for the French army during the Algerian war....

The Dec. 3 mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., which claimed the lives
of 14 county workers and injured 21 others, occurred less than a week after a
mass shooting Nov. 27 at the Colorado Springs, Colo., Planned Parenthood
facility. There, it was a “lone gunman” (white) who killed three
people and wounded nine others. In San Bernardino, however, the official FBI
narrative says the alleged shooters expressed sympathy with the group known as the Islamic State group (often called ISIS or I.S.). Why did this deadly attack
happen and how can others be prevented?...

New York City is experiencing an unprecedented construction boom. Spending on construction increased by 73 percent to $11.9 billion in 2013, and then spiked by 26 percent last year to $36 billion. Most of the spending is on luxury residences in Manhattan, with a big chunk of the rest devoted to Brooklyn, just across the East River. (Bloomberg, April 30)...

An ad-hoc coalition of anti-war activists, Muslim groups, anti-racist organizations and students have announced a demonstration against Donald Trump and the fascist, one-percent-backed campaign he represents.
...

“Shut down Stewart!” shouted protesters on Nov. 21 at the gates of the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. Some 1,400 joined this ninth annual rally and march of the “Expose and Close Stewart” movement, aimed to end the brutal incarceration of undocumented people there....

Many young people in Paris were innocent victims of the Nov. 13 attack, but that doesn’t mean that the French imperialist state is innocent. While the 1789 French Revolution raised the idealistic slogans of liberty, equality and fraternity, French imperialism, which developed from that bourgeois revolution, has a bloody history across the world. The actions of the French ruling class have created many enemies, but it is the ordinary people, not the elites, who pay the price....

The news from France is grim. The immediate response of the French government to the terrible attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, which killed 129 people and wounded hundreds more, was to send planes to bomb Raqqa in Syria, a city of 200,000 people....

Activist organizations in New York City have called for “A People’s Response to the G20 Summit,” meeting in Istabul, Turkey, to take place at CNN headquarters at 59 Street and Columbus Circle on 4 p.m. on Nov. 15. The following are excerpts from a release sent out by the organizers:

Lumpkin, Ga. — On Sept. 3 at about 10:30 p.m., Corrections Corporation of America management deployed their Special Operations Response Team to brutally suppress hunger strikes, work stoppages and other forms of resistance organized by undocumented people who are currently detained at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga....

Behind the horror stories about the treatment of migrants trying to reach Europe is the imperialist system of exploitation of their countries of origin, the policies exacerbating this exploitation and the imperialist wars that made their home countries unlivable for them and their children....

Seven thousand refugees arrived in July on the small Greek island of Kos, some 2.5 miles off the Turkish coast, according to the International Organization for Migration. The flow of refugees increased in August....

If there were an election for France’s head of state today, Marine Le Pen with her neofascists [the National Front] would have a good chance of winning the vote. Polls place her with around 30 percent, winning either first or second place, and a victory in the runoff election no longer seems impossible. In Sweden, too, the influence of the racists continues. For the first time the “Sweden Party” was the strongest force in a survey published on Aug. 20 by the daily newspaper Metro....

Jobless in a depression-era society, targeted by fascists like those in the Golden Dawn party and seeing benefits cut even for workers who are citizens, immigrant workers are near the bottom of Greek society, with perhaps only the refugees from ongoing wars below them. Immigrants find only the toughest jobs needing the least skills that pay little. Nearly all are excluded from Greek electoral life....

From April 30 to May 3, people in many U.S. cities held rallies, marches and other events in solidarity with the rebellious youth of Baltimore protesting police brutality. On May 1, immigrants, including many from Latin America, organized and called demonstrations for immigrant and workers’ rights, but they also stood in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and its latest manifestation in Baltimore. The International Action Center reports on some of these activities here....

The heinous, senseless murders of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, of Syrian descent; his spouse, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Palestinian descent and all Muslim, near the campus of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on Feb. 10, has evoked shock, sadness and outrage worldwide. Protests and vigils have been held in the U.S. and throughout the world, including Occupied Gaza, to expose the root cause — Islamophobia — of the execution-style murders of these young people....

With offices in the U.S. and Canada, the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has worked to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America since its establishment in 1994. It is America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. Because Minnesota is home to the largest Somali diaspora in the U.S., much of it in Minneapolis/St. Paul, the state’s CAIR office is often involved with advocacy for people of Somali origin—hearing complaints, advising them of their rights, and helping to resolve issues of harassment, discrimination, and bias...

Thousands turned out Feb. 11 at a vigil on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in remembrance of three young Muslims murdered in their home near the school. Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his spouse of two months, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, all Palestinian, were shot in the head execution-style on Feb. 10....

Hundreds of people from across the country marched to the Stewart Detention Center in rural southwestern Georgia on Nov. 21, demanding the for-profit prison be shut down. Operated by Corrections Corporation of America, the medium security facility holds upwards of 1,900 immigrant detainees....

President Barack Obama issued a long-awaited Executive Order on immigration policy on Nov. 20. That same day hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico took part in mass marches in solidarity with the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero....

Historic Riverside Church in New York City was the location for the send-off on Oct. 10 of the “National Caravan in Solidarity with the Children and Families at the Mexico and Texas Borders.” The enthusiastic crowd of nearly 100 supporters cheered on caravan organizers and participants, jumping to their feet several times during the program....

Odeh is being charged with Unlawful Procurement of Naturalization, but
strongly asserts her innocence. Deutsch, who has represented political
activists and victims of police and government civil rights violations since
1970, was pleased with the ruling for a continuance and has begun working on a
strategy for the defense....

Union Square, New York City — Since a migrant upsurge in 2006 revived May Day in the United States, Union Square in this city has attracted those most unequivocally in defense of worker and immigrant rights — who call not merely for immigration reform but for legalization of the undocumented, without conditions. Union Square has drawn together the most militant and anti-imperialist forces in this huge, multinational city....

ore than 80 events were held across the U.S. around the theme of “Not
1 More Deportation!” on April 5, the date immigrant rights activists
estimated that the 2 millionth person would be deported under the
administration of President Barack Obama. The actions were coordinated by
the National Day Labor Organizing Network, which says that the 2 million
deportations are “2 million too many.”...

The atmosphere was electric and filled with optimism on
March 8 as a dynamic march took over the sidewalks of the East Village and then
went up Sixth Avenue toward midtown Manhattan. The march commemorated the 104th
anniversary of International Working Women’s Day....

Sixty-six year old Rasmea Odeh is a Palestinian-American feminist, activist, educator and community leader. She has served as the associate director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in Chicago since 2004. For the past 10 years, Rasmea has built unprecedented community support for close to 600 Arab immigrant women on issues related to English literacy, gender violence, inter-generational cultural conflicts, racial profiling, immigrant rights, and access to social and economic resources. She has established community-wide education projects related to civil and human rights, social justice, and community economic development and workshops that allow Arab immigrant women to tell, write, and perform their immigration stories while improving their writing skills. In 2013, Rasmea received the "Outstanding Community Leader Award" from the Chicago Cultural Alliance, which described her as a woman who has "dedicated over 40 years of her life to the empowerment of Arab women, first in her homes of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, where she was an activist, and then the past 10 years in Chicago....

The Arab American Action Network condemns the politically motivated arrest
and indictment of Rasmea Yousef Odeh, our beloved Associate Director. The 65
year old was arrested at her home yesterday by agents from the Department of
Homeland Security, alleging an immigration violation on a 20-year-old
application....

On the eve of the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Migration and
Development (UN HLD) in October 2013, migrants around the world will launch
Millions Migrants Mobilizing Worldwide or 3MW, a global cultural campaign
consisting of a choreographed line dance to an original song highlighting the
root causes of forced migration and the issues migrants and refugees face
everyday, such as family separation, labor exploitation, wage theft, detention,
deportation, criminalization and discrimination....

A number of immigrant, labor and progressive organizations joined the May
1 Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights at an April 29 press
conference in front of the Manhattan office of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to
announce plans for May Day 2013 in New York. Immigrant rights groups expressed
their concern and disappointment with the “Gang of 8” proposal on
immigration reform. The eight refers to the number of senators —
Democrats (including Schumer) and Republicans — who are the main
architects of this divisive bill....

Much still remains unknown about the bomb explosions
yesterday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and what was behind this
disaster that has tragically hit so many individuals and families who were on
the scene, the majority of them spectators....

La Coalición Primero de Mayo Por los Derechos de Los Trabajadores y Los
inmigrantes, invita a todas las organizaciones de la Ciudad de New
York, para discutir la planeación de la Marcha y Rally del
Primero de Mayo, celebrada desde el 2005. / The May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights invites everyone to the Citywide Meeting to discuss plans for the May 1st rally & march as well as for other events throughout the year. This event has been hosted by the Coalition annually since 2005 at Union Square
Park....

On Oct. 15, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced the
fourth round of fare hikes in four years. During that time the MTA has also
been on a cutback frenzy. Dozens of station booths have been demolished. The
transit agency has made it harder for people with disabilities to qualify for
Access-A-Ride....

On Thursday, at 3:00 PM in front of the MTA headquarters, anti-war activists, Muslim clergy and others will hold a press conference to announce legal action to prevent the MTA from blocking ads countering war, hate and racism.
...

New York — The capitalist media waged a frenzied war campaign against
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejahd while the United Nations was in
session the end of September. This propaganda campaign was designed to create
popular support for “regime change” in Iran so that Wall Street can
take over that country’s oil resources....

While staying aware of its destructive capacity, we can expand our view if
we also examine its weaknesses. The Pentagon’s Achilles’ heel lies
within the contradictions of the capitalist system that created this
monstrosity....

The International Action Center plans to submit an ad opposed to racism,
anti-Muslim bigotry and war to the MTA on Friday morning, Sept. 28. The IAC ads
are in response to the racist ads posted in NYC subway stations — placed
by Pam Geller from Stop Islamization of America and American Freedom Defense
Initiative. Geller's ads refer to Muslim community members as being
"savages" among other offensive language....

Racism is a weapon of war. We stand in solidarity with
victims of police, state, and racial violence and build links to people under
attack – Muslims, Sikhs, immigrant workers, death row prisoners,
­African-American and Latino youth, social justice ­activists are all
targets in an atmosphere of escalating racism and
repression....

The International Action Center has contracted with MTA to run 10 ads opposed to racism, anti-Muslim bigotry and war. The IAC ads will be in NYC subway stations in one week, starting Monday, Oct 8. They are in response to the racist ads posted in NYC subway stations — placed by Pam Geller from Stop Islamization of America and American Freedom Defense Initiative. Geller's ads refer to Muslim community members as being "savages" among other offensive language.
Two years ago around the 9-11 date Pamela Geller, in a well-funded media campaign, tried to whip up in NYC the same climate of bigotry and intolerance against Muslims with an ugly campaign against the building of an Islamic Center blocks from the World Trade Center. The International Action Center with a broad coalition of forces challenged this campaign to demonize Muslims. Many thousands of people responded with mass rallies and meetings. A strong, united public challenge to the racist, bigoted forces helped to turn the ugly climate around. It is essential that all those outraged by the racist, pro-violent message be able to see a different message. The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) publicly stated that in order to protect freedom of speech, they must accept extreme right-wing racist Geller's $6,000 for 10 ads in the largest mass transit system in the western hemisphere with 8.5 million daily riders. The IAC is an all volunteer organization without funding,a except many small individual donations. It has advanced the funds to undertake this campaign because we felt it was important to counter the 'hate messaging' of Geller. But we hope many people will step forward to help carry the costs....

Charlotte, N.C. — Volunteer activists with the March on Wall Street South coalition are in high gear mobilizing for a week of protest actions Sept. 1-6 around the Democratic National Convention. These events include a Festivaliberacion on Sept. 1, a march and rally on Sept. 2, and a Southern Workers Assembly on Sept. 3....

The attempted railroading of longtime Chicano, anti-war and immigrant rights leader, Carlos Montes, drew to a close in Los Angeles on June 5 in a victory for the defense. In the end, a plea bargain was accepted that precluded jail time....

We are at a critical time. The trial for Carlos Montes will start June 20, and run for a week. We need you to pack the courtroom. Your presence during his trial will make the difference between his freedom and prison time!...

The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke partnered with Occupy Atlanta, the International Action Center and other organizations to stage a two-prong action at the annual Coca-Cola stockholders’ meeting, held at the Cobb Galleria in suburban Atlanta on April 25....

Over the last several months, a grouping within the Occupy Wall Street movement has met hundreds of times to discuss getting involved with May Day. The discussions and deliberations in these meetings exemplify how much the events that erupted on Wall Street last September signify that a movement has been born in this country....

A broad array of immigrant rights groups, day laborers, grassroots unionists, street vendors, community organizations and some of the city’s most important labor unions have joined the youthful Occupy Wall Street movement in calling on everyone to be in Union Square on May Day....

Even as the failure of authorities in Florida to arrest the killer of 17-year-old African-American Trayvon Martin continues to stoke the fires of righteous anger at racism, another killing has taken place that has touched a nerve of outrage and solidarity around the U.S....

On Thursday, April 12, Dr. Tarek Mehanna will be sentenced in Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston. The Tarek Mehanna Support Committee is urging everyone to be in court by 9 a.m. for a strong showing of support and solidarity....

Monica Moorehead, a March 31st organizer, states, “Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, has told the world that her son is everybody's son. It is in this spirit that our coalition encourages all mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, nieces, girlfriends and spouses of all ages, nationalities, gender expressions and sexual preferences to attend along with
men.”...

The People’s Power tour was launched in New York on March 11. The tour
seeks to bring working, poor and oppressed people into a nationwide discussion
to help develop a unifying fightback program of action. Its literature points
to the life-and-death social issues that are intensified by the current global
capitalist economic crisis, such as “unemployment, low wages,
foreclosures, police and ICE terror, racist incarcerations, hunger and
homelessness.”...

Demonstrators rallied at the Alabama State Capitol on the afternoon of March 9, after completing the final leg of the 54-mile, week-long march between Selma and Montgomery. Marchers protested Alabama’s toughest-in-the-U.S. immigration law, for workers’ rights and against laws in 31 states requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls....

On that day we will say that we are all Mumia, we are all immigrants, we are all prisoners, we are all Bradley Manning, we are all poor, we are all Palestinian, we are all Troy Davis, we are all political prisoners, we are all occupiers!!! ...

The “libertarian” movement has never been friendly to the 99%.
Its members are not apologetic about wanting to abolish all social programs
that aid the people, from Medicaid to food stamps. They want to shut down every
government department that in any way limits the excesses of the 1%. These
include the Departments of Labor, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services,
among others....

The police campaign to wipe out the Occupy Wall Street movement across the
country should drive home a truth that has long been experienced by oppressed
communities, workers on strike, fighters for civil rights, immigrant workers
and many others. The regime of capitalist democracy in the United States has a
violently repressive character — side-by-side with its controlled
“democratic” institutions....

The Occupy Wall Street movement at Zuccotti Park in New York City heard the
powerful voices of women activists, the majority of them immigrants from Latin
America, at a rally organized Nov. 20 by a broad coalition led by Women Workers
for Peace and La Peña del Bronx....

From capitalist media pundits to the Occupy Wall Street encampments
struggling to hold public space in countless cities and towns across the U.S.,
this question is bubbling underneath the daily actions and police
repression....

The scene was a perfect storm of organized chaos. Here
were the young and old, students and workers, immigrants and oppressed, all
addressing the failures of capitalism’s current worldwide crisis,
outlining the destructive forces of global banking systems and highlighting the
lack of communal values in a place that loves to cry patriotism....

Dr. Tarek Mehanna is a 28-year-old Muslim, an Egyptian-American and a
graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He has
been held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day since his arrest in 2009....

On Friday, October 21, the Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY) will be joining the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York in hosting Friday Prayer (Jummah) at Occupy Wall Street. Jummah will begin at 1pm in Zuccotti Park. A sermon will be delivered on social justice in Islam by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki of the Islamic Leadership Council....

Below is the text of a recent interview John Catalinotto did with Junge Welt about his experience at the World Trade Center 10 years ago and the political consequences of the attack. The jW article is an edited and shorter version of the original comments in English....

People from every sector of the regional New York City progressive movement,
including representatives of various religious communities, gathered at City
Hall Park near the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11 to show solidarity with
the Muslim community. That group has focused over the past month on condemning
the racism and bigotry whipped up by the ultra-right, which was holding what
turned out to be a small anti-Muslim rally a few blocks to the west....

Extreme right-wing, racist forces — who last year whipped up a climate of racism against the Islamic Prayer Center at 51 Park Place — are planning to use the tenth anniversary of September 11 for another anti-Muslim hatefest....

Wednesday's (Aug. 10) first Planning Meeting of the Emergency Mobilization Against
Racism, War and Anti-Muslem Bigotry to counter the racist, right-wing forces on
Sunday, September 11 was a tremendous step forward. We discussed plans for a
Rally, March and Cultural Exhibition....

Extreme right wing racist forces, who last year whipped up an ugly climate
of hate against the Islamic Prayer Center at 51 Park Place, have announced new
plans for Sunday, September 11 this year at the same location....

Extreme right-wing, racist forces, who last year whipped up a climate of hate against the Islamic Prayer Center at 51 Park Place, have announced ugly new plans for this year -- the 10th anniversary of 9/11 -- at the same location near the World Trade Center site. This is a very dangerous threat. Anders Breivik, the racist, right-wing Norwegian responsible for the recent mass murder of 77 mostly young people in Norway, has quoted extensively from the writings of Pamela Geller of Stop Islamization of America and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. These are the two organizations opposing the Islamic Prayer Space at 51 Park Place....

The International Migrants’ Alliance (IMA) denounces former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sexual assault on female migrant worker Nafissatou Diallo, as well as the case’s subsequent handling by US prosecutors and the Western media, as not only an attack on her person but on women and migrants as well....

On July 22 a bomb attack on central Oslo and a massacre at an island Labor Party summer camp killed 76 people, most of them youths. It was the worst such tragedy in that country of 4.8 million people since World War II....

On June 2 hotel housekeepers who are members of UNITE HERE launched a
coordinated eight-city speak-out “to break the silence on the dangers of
their jobs.” The workers stated that they were “inspired by the
courageous stand taken by the housekeepers in New York against some of the most
powerful men in the world.” ...

The sun had not dawned yet on the cold, crisp morning of May 17 in Alhambra,
a neighborhood east of Los Angeles. It was hard to believe spring had arrived
that morning when at 5 a.m. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
SWAT team assembled in front of Carlos Montes’ driveway and front yard.
The silence was shattered along with Montes’ door as the officers rammed
it down and then sprang into his home bearing automatic rifles....

On May 17, 2011 at 5:00 AM, the SWAT Team of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department and members of the FBI raided the home of Carlos Montes, a long time
Chicano activist and active member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. The
SWAT Team smashed the front door and rushed in with automatic weapons as Carlos
slept. The team of Sheriffs and FBI proceeded to ransack his house, taking his
computer, cell phones and hundreds of documents, photos, diskettes and mementos
of his current political activities in the pro-immigrant rights and Chicano
civil rights movement. Also taken were hundreds of historical documents related
to Carlos Montes’ involvement in the Chicano movement for the past 44
years....

International Workers’ Day — May Day — was honored throughout the U.S. on May 1 with marches demanding legalization for immigrants and an end to union busting and attacks on workers, including vicious anti-immigrant and anti-worker legislation enacted or under consideration in several states....

The workers’ movement in the United States took a significant step forward this May Day when labor and immigrant organizations in New York City came together after a march and closed the day by exchanging speakers under the banner “May Day Is Workers’ Day.”...

Very little is known about the top-secret U.S. operation that executed Osama bin Laden, except what President Barack Obama chose to announce: that U.S. secret forces found bin Laden, killed him May 1 and disposed of his body at sea on May 2....

Union leaders from the center of the struggles in Wisconsin and California
spoke at a news conference April 29 in New York’s Union Square to help
build for what they hope will be a massive May Day march this year....

In a
show of unity, May 1st Coalition members joined with union members from LIUNA,
SEIU Local 1199, 32BJ, LACLAA and others at City Hall to announce that speakers
from the Foley Square Coalition & May 1st would be sharing speakers and
supporting each others activities. The Union Square organizers will be leaving
14th St. earlier than usual to join the Foley Square rally in a closing unity
rally....

he increased attacks on both immigrant and non-immigrant workers show the
need for the most united, militant action possible on May Day in the U.S.
May Day originated in the U.S. from the struggle of immigrants and other
workers who fought and died for the eight-hour workday in 1886 – for the
right of all workers to a decent life....

Already bogged down in a bitter war of occupation, the U.S. has found itself
facing renewed outrage by Afghans who are protesting both the U.S. and its NATO
allies. Otherwise “pacified” cities have joined with guerrilla
forces operating mainly in the countryside to demand that U.S. and NATO forces
leave immediately....

Three thousand activists demonstrated against U.S. wars abroad on April 10 in San Francisco. Protesters rallied in Dolores Park in the city’s Mission district both before and after a march through the community. The United National Antiwar Committee sponsored the actions. Those who attended were buoyed by what they described as “the renewal of the anti-war movement....

Thousands of people from virtually all sectors of U.S. workers, the oppressed and youths gathered in Union Square in New York City April 9 and marched, shouted and drummed their anti-war slogans for two miles to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan. As this largest anti-war march in New York in years stretched for 20 blocks down Broadway, it passed by thousands of New Yorkers busy shopping, who smiled, cheered and waved at what can only be described as the new face of a vibrant movement to confront the war-makers....

he major national Antiwar Rallies in NYC
at Union Square, on Saturday, April 9 and in San Francisco on Sunday, April 10
are just 2 weeks away. Momentum is building based on the urgency of
responding to the new attacks in Libya, no end to the U.S. wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, more attacks and threats to Gaza, ugly attacks on
Muslims, new attacks on unions and collective bargaining and a new rounds of
cutbacks of every possible social program, particularly hitting the Black and
immigrant communities and the unemployed....

The Pima County Tea Party Patriots are holding a rally Jan. 28 in Tucson, Ariz., to launch a campaign to oust County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. The Tea Party and right-wingers all over the country have opened a campaign of vilification against Dupnik because he pointed the finger at the ultraright in his press conference on the day of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an attack that claimed six lives....

The thousands who united on Sept. 11 to say no to the Tea Party and its
racist allies have given a new impetus to the anti-racist and workers’
struggle. They faced a right-wing opponent with a month’s head start, big
funding and enormous media publicity. But they stood strong to defend their
Muslim sisters and brothers and confront the hate-mongers, resisting pressure
from the government and corporate media. In the end, they outnumbered and
out-shouted the elements who follow Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich and their ilk.
Even the rightist New York Post had to admit that the anti-racists
out-organized the right-wing gang....

The hullabaloo and objections to the proposed building of the Islamic
Cultural Center, also known as Cordoba House or the Park 51 project, as being
“insensitively” located in lower Manhattan near the World Trade
Center site, are not due to concern for “the feelings of the 9/11
families.” That is not the real issue at hand....

On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist and right wing allies plan to again demonstrate at the World Trade Center site. For months these bigots have attempted to whip up hysteria against a proposed Islamic masjid (mosque) and community center several blocks from the WTC.
...

By any estimate, the people who came out against racism and bigotry far outnumbered the Tea Party crowd.
Forced into action by a vicious anti-Muslim rally meant to stop construction of a downtown Islamic Center, on September 11 thousands of people took to the streets of New York to say no to racism....

On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist and right wing allies plan to again demonstrate at the World Trade Center site. For months these bigots have attempted to whip up hysteria against a proposed Islamic masjid (mosque) and community center several blocks from the WTC. On September 11 right wing, Christian fundamentalist plan a “Burn the Quran” day at a Florida Masjid. These same forces targeting masjids around the country are waging a national hate campaign against all people of color and immigrants....

On the ninth anniversary of September 11, thousands of people marched against racism in a diverse show of solidarity that far outnumbered the Tea Party-led hate rallies.“We had at least 10,000 people,” said Sara Flounders, one of the coordinators of the Unity and Solidarity Rally. “And the rally program – with speakers from the labor movement, immigrants' rights coalitions, and clergy from synagogues, churches and mosques – featured the dynamic diversity of almost every community in New York.” Once the opponents of Park51 had made September 11 into a racist attack on Muslims, the question was whether progressive forces were going to allow this poisonous hate campaign to go unchallenged.Today that question was resoundingly answered in a dynamic anti-racist rally that attracted over fifty speakers and featured noted personalities such as anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, and former U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark....

hursday afternoon the top media story was
racist Pastor Terry Jones in Gainesville, Florida announcing that he was
cancelling his planned 9/11 Quran burning. This came after heavy pressure from
the White House and Pentagon fearful of the response in the Muslim world. It is
also a grassroots victory based on the mass mobilization against this ugly
threat taken on in Gainesville, Florida by the local Students for a Democratic
Society – SDS....

Wednesday night’s organizing meeting in New York City for the Saturday, September 11 march against the ugly racism & Islamophobia leveled by the right wing Tea Party against a Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero was truly amazing and inspiring.The plans for a racist rally on September 11 against an Islamic Community Center have galvanized a united anti-racist response. About 100 organizers and activists from dozens of groups attended the meeting to plan a massive show of unity and solidarity. Here are some highlights:...

The Emergency Mobilization Against Racism and Anti-Islamic Bigotry is
organizing a rally for civil rights and religious freedom on Saturday,
September 11th. This rally is a response to the ugly and violent attacks, both
verbal and physical, which are happening more and more frequently around the
country. It is also a specific response to the hate-filled protest being called
by a coalition of racist and anti-Islamic organizations on September 11th....

The French government of Nicolas Sarkozy is attacking the country’s large and diverse immigrant and foreign communities, which it calls the sources of delinquency and crime, with expulsions and deportations, loss and denial of French citizenship, and new laws imprisoning parents for the crimes their children commit, as well as increased police violence. According to many French political analysts, the Sarkozy administration is using this approach to repair its public standing, which has been battered by the worldwide recession, growing unemployment and the anger of France’s combative unions....

Activists here and around the country have begun mobilizing to stop cold those who promote racism and hatred of Muslims. They plan to confront a vicious demonstration and rally scheduled for the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11. A rally and counterprotest near the WTC site on Aug. 22 showed that the confrontation is gaining momentum....

On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist and right wing allies plan to again demonstrate at the World Trade Center site. For months these bigots have attempted to whip up hysteria against a proposed Islamic masjid (mosque) and community center several blocks from the WTC....

On July 29 the racist, anti-immigrant law SB1070 went into effect in
Arizona. On July 28, federal judge Susan Bolton temporarily blocked the worst
parts of the law from being implemented. Nonetheless, July 29 was a day filled
with nonstop protests and bold actions as people took to the streets to show
their outrage at this bigoted attack against immigrants and workers....

Despite a continuous onslaught of attacks against immigrant workers,
resistance and opposition continue to grow in the U.S. — not only against
Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, but also against the entire campaign to
criminalize and drive workers born outside this country underground....

Organizations from Arizona’s three major population centers —
Tucson, Flagstaff and Phoenix — met on July 17 to prepare coordinated
activities for July 29, the date of SB 1070’s implementation. SB 1070 is
a racist, anti-immigrant state law that is opposed by immigrant rights
advocates, progressives and justice-loving people in Arizona and around the
country....

LGBTQ organizations, Immigrant Rights
groups & progressive allied organizations are being asked to please
circulate the following email widely to their internet networks as soon as
possible. They ask that your constituents and members sign on to the online
petition in support of the boycott and circulate it widely as part
of Week of Solidarity against
the anti-immigrant attacks in Arizona & Call to Action for Human Rights
July 23-30, 2010...

hereby demand the immediate repeal of Arizona's unconstitutional and racist anti-immigrant law SB 1070, which legalizes racial profiling by law enforcement and makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime....

President Barack Obama gave a major address on immigration on July 1, after
much anticipation by the immigrant rights movement.

If immigrants and supporters expected anything positive to come out of the
speech, they were greatly disappointed. In fact, what President Obama endorsed
as proposed policy is everything the movement has been fighting against, not
only since 2006, but historically....

A massive march filled the streets of downtown Phoenix on May 29 as close to
200,000 people gathered to denounce the racist SB 1070 law and show their
determination to fight back against this anti-immigrant attack. The streets
were packed from curb to curb for over three miles as demonstrators made their
way along the six-mile route that began at Steele Indian School Park, snaked
its way through downtown and ended at the state Capitol building....

At approximately 1 p.m. on May 21, more than a dozen people occupied the
Tucson Headquarters of the U.S. Border Patrol to draw attention to impacts of
border militarization in Indigenous Communities. Six people, including Alex
Soto, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation and a volunteer with the
group O’odham Solidarity Across Borders, locked themselves together for
up to three and a half hours. “Indigenous voices have been ignored. In
our action today we say NO MORE!” said Soto....

Momentum is growing for the national march to stop SB 1070 to be held May 29
in Phoenix. The march will demand the repeal of SB 1070, Arizona’s
“Show me your papers” law, and an end to racist immigrant-bashing
and the blaming of immigrants for economic and social problems which in reality
result from the capitalist economic crisis....

On May 11, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law House Bill 2281, which eliminates ethnic studies programs from the state’s K-12 schools. This came just three weeks after she signed the repugnant anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070.

The HB 2281 bill, which was pushed through the state legislature by the same racist forces that pushed SB 1070, not only eliminates the Tucson Unified School District’s popular Mexican American Studies and Raza Studies programs but also slanders TUSD’s programs with outright lies. It states that the ethnic studies programs teach students to “resent or hate other races” and that they “promote the overthrow of the United States government.”...

n a powerful, energetic and inspiring day of action, activists, unemployed people, students and youth, and community organizers from across the East Coast and Midwest converged on the Department of Labor on May 8 to honor the 75th anniversary of the Works Projects Administration — by demanding a concrete jobs program, now. They then held a meeting to strategize around their demands and plan future events.

Proposed actions resulting from the meeting include the creation of People’s Assemblies to be held in various cities to help link struggles and movements together; national days of outrage and local speak-outs against unemployment; community-labor action committees inside local unions to support the fight for jobs; and connecting with student and youth calls for an Oct. 7 day of action in support of public education....

In Nepal, Honduras, Greece and elsewhere around the world, this year’s
May Day actions went far beyond the traditional workers’ holiday by
opening major struggles over decisive policies and in some cases over questions
of power....

It was a significant event that not even the big-business-owned press could
ignore, hard as they wanted to do. May Day 2010 in the United States was the
largest national outpouring of protests since the May Day Immigrant Uprising of
2006, when millions of people, the great majority of Latin American and
Caribbean origin, took to the streets against the reactionary Sensenbrenner
bill that denied full immigrant rights....

Tens of thousands of people rallied, chanted and rocked to Hip Hop performers and other artists and orators for more than three hours in Union Square today before marching two miles to the federal buildings in downtown Manhattan. This year’s May Day action focused on combating the recently passed Arizona anti-immigrant law and demanding legalization of all undocumented workers in the U.S. and their families....

This week nationwide press conferences are being held in various
cities by leading coalitions in the immigrant rights movement to collectively
denounce attempts to criminalize immigrants, from the recent bill in Arizona to
the Schumer plan. Included in the media events are the May 1st Coalition in
Tucson, Arizona; the May 1st Coalition in New York, New York; the Miami May Day
Coalition in Miami, Florida; and here in Los Angeles the Southern California
Immigration Coalition (SCIC)....

On Saturday May 1, 2010, a diverse coalition of immigrant rights advocates,
community and union leaders, artists and youth-based community organizations
will gather in Union Square at midday for a rally, march and Hip Hop concert in
support of immigrant and worker rights. In light of legislation passed in
Arizona last week, the Union Square event will emphasize condemning this
racially charged legislation that will terrorize not only immigrants but all
communities of color....

Seventy-five years ago, Pres. Roosevelt signed the executive order
establishing the Works Projects Administration, the biggest public jobs program
in U.S. history. Join unemployed people, trade unionists, community and youth
activists and organizations from all over the country on Saturday, May 8 in
Washington, D.C. to call for a real jobs program for the 30 million unemployed
and underemployed people in the U.S. today....

April 23 — When the Arizona Senate passed a sweeping, racist
anti-immigrant bill on April 19, it unleashed a firestorm of outrage from
Arizona’s oppressed communities. The bill legalizes racial profiling and
criminalizes all undocumented people as “trespassers.” It also
contains provisions attacking day laborers, allows for the seizure of any
vehicle used to transport an undocumented person, and calls for the arrest of
anyone who provides assistance to an undocumented person....

The Arizona law targeting all immigrants, and all Latinos/as, has been passed by both houses of the Arizona Legislation. The governor has three days to either veto, sign or let it pass into law without action. We must let the Arizona state government know that this racist attack will be answered by not only protests, but a full-scale tourism and convention boycott of Arizona...

On April 17, the openly Nazi group NSM held a rally at Los Angeles City Hall. Many groups, including socialist, anti-war and anti-racist organizations, mobilized to challenge their so-called right to free speech that motivates violence, racism and genocide against non-European peoples and the LGBTQ community....

In the early morning hours of April 15, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and other Homeland Security agencies launched a military operation against Tucson’s mostly Latino/a and Indigenous south side neighborhoods....

Among the many so-called “Tea Party” actions mobilizing right-wing forces on the pretext of opposing paying taxes was one called by a local New York City group, which seemed to be based in Staten Island. The Tax Day rally, however, was set at the Central Post Office across from Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

A visit of the “Tea Party Express” to cities in the Midwest
— a region of the country that has been most devastated by the economic
crisis of capitalism — did not go unchallenged. Rather, activists and
community members confronted them at several stops to denounce the right-wing
attempt to divide working and oppressed people and to show that the racist,
sexist, anti-lesbian-gay-bi-trans, anti-immigrant, corporate-funded Tea Party
does not speak for working people....

Southern California, Occupied México- On Friday and Saturday March 26 and
27, the International Action Center (IAC) and Unión del Barrio hosted a
National Labor Tour coordinated by the US/Cuba Labor Exchange to Southern
California. The purpose of the tour was two fold; 1) to bring together workers
in the US with those from Latin America to discuss the current social and
political problems arising from US Economic Trade Policies (Free Trade
Agreements), and 2) to build support for the Bolivarian Alternative for Nuestra
América (ALBA) the social and economic integration program for continental
unity....

The International Action Center will be traveling to DC this weekend with
activists from Bailout the People Movement, BAYAN, FIST-Fight Imperialism Stand
Together, Peoples Organization for Progress, May 1 Coalition for Workers and
Immigrant rights, Women’s Fight Back Network, Free Mumia Coalition and
many others in cars, vans and buses.

This year’s May Day is more important than ever as the economic and
financial crisis continues to strike a heavy blow on workers from the U.S. and
around the world. A recovery with no jobs is a recovery solely for the
multinational corporations, who are raking in record profits as the people face
increasing poverty, joblessness, homelessness, disease and death. The escalation of war abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the racist,
ruthless military occupation of Haiti demand our response....

The Bail Out the People Movement, meeting in New York on Feb. 24, voted to endorse and help to mobilize for the March 20 National March on Washington. The demonstration, called by the Answer Coalition, raises the slogans: U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Free Palestine, Reparations for Haiti, and Money for Healthcare, Jobs and Education. The endorsement, proposed by the International Action Center, had unanimous support and was followed by a concrete discussion of outreach, transportation and material to take to Washington....

On March 4 students and workers from all around the country will take action
to defend education against increased privatization of pre-kindergarten through
12th grade schools, budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs and tuition increases at
college and universities — especially the public institutions....

This year’s May Day is more important than ever as the economic and financial crisis continues to strike a heavy blow on workers from the U.S. and around the world. A recovery with no jobs is a recovery solely for the multinational corporations, who are raking in record profits as the people face increasing poverty, joblessness, homelessness, disease and death....

Jenny Ulysse is a teen-aged Boston community organizer who was in Port-au-Prince Haiti on January 12 and was injured in the earthquake. She has been unable to receive an x-ray or any medical attention for her injured foot and leg since then. Although she is a legal resident of the United States, lives here with her family and is the main breadwinner, is employed and goes to school in Boston, her efforts to return and obtain necessary medical attention are being rebuffed at the U.S. embassy because she is not a citizen....

Haiti has suffered a terrible natural disaster at the cost of hundreds of thousands of precious lives. This natural disaster however, has been bitterly aggravated by racism and imperialist domination....

If the U.S. government was interested in supporting democracy or in building
respect for the will of the people in a democratic election, it should have
started by respecting the outcome of the 2006 Palestinian election. The
Palestinian people voted in large numbers, electing Hamas candidates to
parliament with large enough votes to form the Palestinian government. In Gaza,
Hamas had a total sweep....

Approximately 40 immigrant artists (artists who were displaced from their
homelands) will participate in 4 exhibits throughout the metropolitan New York
area, the first two openings taking place in July, 2009. The artists come from
a variety of continents and countries including Ivory Coast, Taiwan to
Guatemala and Chile....

There is a war going on inside this country—a war against immigrants,
especially undocumented immigrants. This war is escalating, and like most wars,
it is taking many casualties. The casualties are innocent children, women and
men whose only crime is the need to survive, to find a way to live and work in
the United States....

One the eve of America's Independence Day celebration, American Muslims
(with the support of concerned members of non-Muslim communities) will
spearhead a three-part initiative to draw attention to, and to educate the
public on, the enormous gulf that still exist between promise and fulfillment,
and how this socio-political deficiency within the American body-politic has
impacted the Muslim community (globally) post 9/11....

“Immigrant,” a bilingual community event on immigrant rights in
Syracuse, held in the Blodgett High School cafeteria, drew a
standing-room-only, multinational crowd of more than 110 people on May 14. ...

Organizing for the June 14-17 People's Summit and Tent City in Detroit
is building fast. A planning meeting April 25 was attended by representatives
from a broad base of progressive organizations. They included the Autoworkers
Caravan, which has been in the forefront of challenging the massive attacks on
auto workers' wages and benefits; the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop
Foreclosures and Evictions; disabled activists from Warriors on Wheels; Call
'Em Out; the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; the Detroit Coalition
Against Police Brutality; and the National Lawyers Guild. Two UAW members from
Toledo, Ohio, also attended....

There was a kickoff rally May 1 at Union Square's historic site of many May Day gatherings -- and then a march to Foley Square, in front of the
notorious Federal Building, where many immigrants have experienced abuse, grief
and discrimination at the hands of "la migra," formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service and now Immigration and Customs
Enforcement....

Over the last several months, a series of dramatic cases involving police killings of civilians has brought to light the essential role of law enforcement within capitalist societies. Numerous cities throughout the United States have seen a dramatic increase in the murder of African Americans by cops as well as the escalation of raids and deportations against immigrants both documented and undocumented....

Fear of a swine flu pandemic is spreading much faster than the virus itself. While it's too soon to predict how widespread and deadly this new
variation of influenza virus will be, information about the likely
origin of the outbreak is starting to surface. A huge factory-farm pig
operation owned by U.S. corporate giant Smithfield and operated by its
Mexican subsidiary, Granjas Carroll de Mexico, may have spawned this new
threat to public health....

May 1 is May Day -- International Workers' Day. It began in the United States a long time ago during the struggle for the eight-hour work day, but that history is not well known here, and for good reason. The scions of
capitalism who feed us their ideology don't want workers and oppressed people to know their own history of struggle....

In the aftermath of the April 12 sniper killings of three Somali teenagers by the U.S. Navy, several U.S. agencies met on April 17 to conduct a review of military and foreign policy toward this Horn of Africa nation. The State Department, Pentagon and Justice Department have outlined a series of options
to ostensibly fight "piracy" in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean....

Former congressman Tom Tancredo, a national symbol of hate, racism, sexism,
bigotry and the scapegoating of immigrants, was invited to speak at UNC Chapel Hill on April 14 by Youth for Western Civilization, a newly-formed white supremacist organization on campus....

Clearly, the fight to bail out the people will not end in April. We must
continue to build a movement that will guarantee jobs,homes, health care, an
end to repression and war, and everything the people need during this growing
economic crisis....Since 2006, workers have come out to commemorate May 1st, International Workers
Day. Despite the raids and deportations, immigrant workers, the sector whose
struggle bore May Day in Chicago two centuries ago, have revived May Day, a day
celebrated by billions around the world every year. In 2005, workers and
activists reclaimed May Day once again and held several May Day demonstrations
in New York City and elsewhere....

The May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights held a news conference
on March 17 at Union Square to announce the upcoming May Day rally in New York
City, which has been held there each year since 2005....

As banks fail, jobs disappear and the economy sinks deeper into a horrific crisis of poverty and misery, the television channels and political campaigns have suddenly become full of the most unlikely people denouncing "big business."...

On July 6, 2007 Victor Toro, a Chilean was arrested by the U.S. Border
Patrol, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security while on board
Amtrak in Rochester, New York. He was transferred to Cayuga County Jail
in Auburn, New York and bail was set at $5,000.00. ...

MIGRANTE Europe supports the struggle of Chilean activist and migrant
worker Victor Toro for freedom and justice. We join his friends and supporters
in calling for his immediate release and grant of political asylum....

More than two weeks after being granted bond by a federal judge, Sami Al-Arian is still being held in prison. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is now being subjected to the worst treatment by prison officials
since his stay in Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Florida three years ago....

On Monday, May 12, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in an operation involving some 900 agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a raid of Agriprocessors Inc, the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant located in the town of Postville, Iowa. The raid --officials boasted–--was “the largest single-site operation of its kind in American history.” ...

"For a long time, others spoke on our behalf. Now we speak for ourselves." The message was clear: the time for the voice of the grassroots migrants has come with the resounding success of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) founding assembly....

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights condemns the latest
Department of Homeland Security immigration raid carried out on May 12, by the
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against immigrant workers
at a meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa....

A terror raid against immigrant workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville,
Iowa, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on May 12 devastated
a whole town. Residents and local officials have expressed
their shock and anger in the national media....

The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), known for its militant and democratic traditions as well as its economic and social justice activism, has written a new chapter in its glorious labor history by shutting down all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours on May Day....

May Day, or International Workers' Day, was celebrated with marches, combative demonstrations and sometimes open struggles all over the world. In the non-imperialist world, these actions focused on the great increase in food
prices in recent weeks, in Europe on defending jobs and workers' wages. In both Europe and the United States, immigrant rights were up front. In the U.S. longshore workers held a rare political strike against war on the West
Coast....

For the third consecutive year U.S. workers reclaimed their historic holiday, which originated with Chicago labor struggles for the 8-hour day in the 1880s. The dominant call this year was for full rights for 12 million undocumented workers....

WORLD EVENTS have made May Day 2008 a turning point. AT NO OTHER TIME in our lives has it been more critical to march together and work together. WE NOW FACE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetimes that is throwing millions out of their homes, jobs and making it more difficult to get healthcare, an education or even gas and food....

Yesterday, on the morning of April 15th, Dr. Al-Arian was removed from the abusive prison of Howard County Detention Center in Maryland. Although immigration officials promised to prevent any further abuse, he was simply thrown from the pot into the frying pan....

On March 8, 1908, working women in the needle trade industry took to the streets of New York City demanding better working conditions, higher wages, shorter workdays and the overall improvement of women's lives in this country. These women marched through New York City demanding justice for women workers and immigrant workers; they were in fact working immigrant women. The message and militancy of these women were so inspiring to women around
the world that in 1910 the International Socialist Congress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, officially declared March 8 International Women's Day....

Workshops will coordinate with the activities of the International Action Center and Troops Out Now Coalition. Trainees will have a chance to gather footage from demonstrations, meetings and forums and will learn to edit that footage and stream it on YouTube and Facebook....

On Monday, January 21, from coast to coast, thousands took to the streets to march against racism.The Martin Luther King March Against Racism Coalition called for nationwide actions, saying, "There is a time for celebrations and there's a time for fighting. Now is a time that we need to fight. And fight like hell. On this King Holiday we must organize and march against the forces of racism, reaction and war, not just the war abroad but the war raging here at home. To know what's happening, is to know that nothing is more important than jump starting a multi-racial movement against racism."...

This year, let's help put the meaning back into the Martin Luther King holiday on January 21st by marching against racism, oppression, war, poverty and division. In New York, the march will assemble at 1 PM for an opening rally at 32nd Street and 7th Avenue, near the offices of radio station WABC (which recently put Don Imus back on the air!). Then we will march to Columbus Circle and rally outside of CNN's offices (located inside the Time Warner building)....

On Sept. 30, the television program "Desperate Housewives" had one of its main characters make a scripted racist slur against Filipino medical
professionals. The character insulted the medical education system of the Philippines....

From June 27 to July 1, Atlanta will host the first-ever Social Forum held in the United States. The U.S. Social Forum will gather thousands of grassroots and community activists from across the country who will engage each other in political discussion and strategy planning. The operating slogan for the five-day event is "For another world to be possible, another U.S. is
necessary."...

More than 1 million immigrants and supporters skipped work and school and took to the streets of New York City today in support of immigration rights.
As the day began, many businesses throughout the region remained closed, as owners observed the May 1 Great American Boycott -- a day of no work, no School, no shopping, and no selling. ...

We the undersigned uncategorically denounce the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid and detention of at least 350 immigrant workers at Michael Bianco Inc. in New Bedford, MA. which took place the morning of Tuesday, March 6, 2007. We stand firmly in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in all immigrant communities and demand the immediate release of all who have been detained by ICE. Further, we demand an immediate end to these raids and deportations of immigrant workers and the reunification of their families.
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